This paper provides empirical evidence that the quality of regulatory governance
governance practices adopted by financial system regulators and supervisors matters for …

This paper compares key characteristics of banking systems across countries. A basic
premise underlying our review is that the increasing globalization of banking and finance …

Several years before the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, most East Asian economies with the
exception of China had engaged in the liberal reform prescriptions of the Washington …

The past two decades have witnessed both tremendous change and tremendous growth in
the financial sector in countries across the globe. At the same time, however, many countries …

As academic and practitioner research increasingly questions the role and effectiveness of
rules-based bank regulatory oversight, in favour of incentive-compatible regulatory design …

This study generates an overview of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, from its causes to the
consequences. At the same time, it examines the context of the crisis, which includes the …